When is the Yi Year in Liangshan? What do Yi people eat for the New Year?

Yi people call Chinese New Year "Ku Shi": "Ku" means year or year; "History" means "new"; "Library history" means celebrating the New Year. The annual festival of the Yi people is at the end of October in the lunar calendar. In some places, October 30th of the lunar calendar is designated as New Year's Eve, and the first day of the winter month is the beginning of the New Year. In most areas of Liangshan, auspicious days are chosen by region, but they all fall within October of the lunar calendar (the Yi people in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi may have different years from those in Daliangshan).

Why does the Lunar New Year celebrate in October? Legend has it that there are two reasons. First of all, there are ten months in Yi history as a year. According to this calendar, October is the end and beginning of a year, which coincides with the New Year in China, so it is customarily called "October Year". Second, because during this period, the crops in the Yi area have been harvested, and the crops are abundant and slack, which is suitable for the New Year.

According to the survey, the year number of Yi people is not fixed. The year of the Yi people is usually in October or November of the lunar calendar, which is determined by the wizard's divination. If there is a bumper harvest in that year, you can continue to celebrate the New Year for one year. Otherwise, choose another auspicious day Or according to the October solar calendar.

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The year of the Yi people is three days. The first night of the year is called "Jueluoji", the first day of the New Year is called "Kusi", the second day is called "Dobo" and the third day is called "Apu Machine".

What do Liangshan Yi people eat for the New Year?

Eat pork

Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi Yi people generally kill pigs, especially during the New Year. According to the custom of Yi people, the pig's head should be divided into two parts, half of which should be kept by the host family to eat or entertain guests, and the other half should be given to the parents-in-law by the son-in-law within a few days after the Chinese New Year. * * * In addition to the pork eaten in the New Year, pork in other places is generally salted into bacon and eaten slowly. Yi people in the suburbs of Kunming, Xuanwei, Weining (Guizhou) and Mianning (Liangshan) have to pickle their own hams after killing pigs, among which Xuanwei's hams are famous all over the country.

Eat mutton

Yi people living in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi mountainous areas or semi-mountainous areas generally like to raise goats and sheep. Sheep are one of their sources of meat, and the Yi people have some special eating customs whether they kill sheep or eat mutton. You can kill goats with a knife; Killing sheep with a knife is forbidden. You can only break the sheep's neck with a wooden stick and then strangle them with your hands. Sheep liver and stomach should be used separately, offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods, and then eating them. Sheep's body, limbs, internal organs, head and hooves are all cooked for guests. In some areas, the sheep's head and four sheep's hooves are cooked and eaten the next day; Sheep brains are all eaten by Yi elderly people. Young women of childbearing age are forbidden to eat rams, only ewes and castrated sheep, and shepherds are forbidden to eat sheep tails. In some areas, when Yi people kill sheep food, they use Roccas to pickle sheep blood. When they want to eat, they use porcelain bowls and steam them on rice, which is especially delicious. Yi people in Yunnan also like to raise milk sheep. They drink goat's milk and process it into various dairy products.

Eat chicken

Yi people eat chicken mainly by cooking and stewing. Yi people in Liangshan, Weining and other places in Guizhou eat chicken, which is usually cut into pieces and mixed with seasoning. Liangshan Yi people often entertain guests with tuotuo chicken and spicy chicken. In the past, Yi people in Yunnan cooked chickens in clay pots. Generally, they tear the chicken into pieces by hand, without a knife. In particular, prepare a bowl, make Chili water with chicken soup, and put a little pepper, garlic and fried salt in the Chili water. Dip the chicken slices in Chili water when eating. Besides, chicken heads are usually eaten by the elderly, and chicken wings are for my daughter. The old man said that he would comb his hair after eating. Chicken legs are usually given to children, but children can't eat chicken feet and chicken blood. Yi people in Yunnan also have the habit of eating chicken. Before killing the chicken, they should prepare a bowl of cold boiled water, put salt, let the chicken clot, and then pour Chili noodles, pepper noodles, vinegar and sesame oil into the chicken blood to eat, which is delicious. The most famous dish of Yi banquet is "four drops of water", and its procedure is to serve four cold dishes first: ham, braised pork liver (or fried vegetables), grey eggs and purple meat (or cold chicken). Secondly, eight panjins were served: osmanthus eggs, shredded squid, shredded pork (or diced chicken), braised elbow, stewed deer tendon, steamed chicken, roasted sea cucumber and crispy fish. Three-fresh soup eight-treasure rice is aged again (eight-treasure rice is mainly fragrant and glutinous, and honeydew melon, jujube, lotus seeds, honey locust rice, longan pulp, sand washing, hemp, red and green silk, walnut slices and coix seed are added). Finally, put four boiled bear paws with feet and elbows on the copper pot, so that the bear paws can be exposed and spread around the copper pot, named "Bear Paw Club", symbolizing "good luck". 1 Pot of bird's nest soup, mainly composed of bird's nest, with longan and rock sugar, symbolizes the silver ball, which is called "treasure heaping silver". Guests eat this and congratulate each other on their wealth and good luck.